Network Operations Engineer in Stoke-on-Trent

Network Operations Engineer – Global Quant Trading Firm | Up to £155k TC

A globally recognised and fast-growing quantitative trading firm is looking for an experienced Network Operations Engineer to support and evolve their low latency network environment.

You’ll be joining a collaborative and forward-thinking environment with flat structures and deep technical expertise – ideal for someone who enjoys network automation, observability tooling, and IaC.

Below I have included a breakdown of the role, company, and requirements. Please review and if the opportunity seems like a good fit share your CV!

Role:

• Maintain and manage a complex, performance-critical network infrastructure,
• Proactively find opportunities for network automation and implement appropriately
• IaC heavy environment – work with likes of Ansible, Python, CI/CD, GitOps practices
• Deliver troubleshooting, operational enhancements, and BAU changes
• Develop observability tooling (dashboards, alerts) and build self-healing or event-driven automation
• Lead post-incident reviews and trend analysis to continuously improve network reliability and performance

Company:

• Technology-led culture – Drives both trading and internal investment decisions
• c.1,000 employees – Large enough for scale, small enough for individual impact
• New state-of-the-art London HQ – Core hub for engineering and trading, Free On-Site Gym
• Flat structure – Direct access to senior engineers and C-level leaders
• Strong Glassdoor rating
• Great work life balance (frequently quoted on Glassdoor) – Free Breakfast and Lunch, 2 days per week WFH
• Competitive Compensation – Year 1 guaranteed bonus, 13% pension, Potential for Sign-On Bonuses

Requirements:

• 5 to 10 years in Network Operations experience
• 2nd line escalation/SME network support experience
• Recent experience within an investment firm
• Vendors – Arista, Cisco, Corvil, Nvidia (All not necessary, but the more the better)
• Python / Golang for Network Automation
• Proven experience with low latency networking
• Monitoring and observability tooling such as Nagios, Solarwinds, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana
• Analysis tooling i.e. Wireshark, Splunk, PromQL
• Familiarity with IaC/DevOps tools such as Ansible, GitOps, CI/CD
• Exposure to vendor management
• Bonus: CCNA/CCNP, CCA/CCE, Arista ACE Level 1/2/3, Nvidia NCA-ALLO, Computing BSc, Networking BSc, Networking MSc